October 27th, 2022

  Market Notes October 27th, 2022       HALLOWEEN AND THE PMA Today is a Thursday, it is not a holiday, but everybody has gone away. How do we present this, so you won’t resent this, and still have something to say. The words we write here could be wrong or right...

October 20th, 2022

  Market Notes October 20th, 2022   THE GREEN SCENE TRANSITION    For the commodity market lettuce, times are tough. The Salinas Valley and surrounding areas, the northern growing season done. The move down south is about three weeks away, and in the meantime,...

October 13th, 2022

  Market Notes October 13th, 2022   TRUTH ABOUT TRUFFLES     The white truffle season has begun. For the past two to three weeks foragers in Italy and Eastern Europe visit their secret locations to dig for these prize tubers. The season starts slowly and with the...

October 6th, 2022

  Market Notes October 6th, 2022   TWO COOL APPLES     As summer days fade away, the air gets crisper and our culinary cravings modify.  It is apple season indeed, and along with the multitude of new crosses, hybrids, and even crisper apples made by CRSPR, we...

September 29th, 2022

  Market Notes September 29th, 2022   A NEW SEASON     As we say good-bye to a summer with record breaking heat waves, fires, and droughts, we say hello to a new hurricane season in the East, flooding in the Midwest, and electrical outages up and down the West...

September 22nd, 2022

  Market Notes September 22nd, 2022 GMO IS GETTING CRISPR     So what’s wrong with 13 fingers and an ear on the top of your head? Conscious Foods,  a subsidy of Pairwise, which was born from the minds of Harvard and MIT  professors, is committed to bring healthy foods...